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Monthly Archives: July 2005

RAM as an actual storage device

July 30th, 2005

AnandTech has a nice review of Gigabyte’s i-RAM product. It’s a card that plugs into a PCI slot that has 4 DIMM slots in it. You buy the card for $150 and then have to buy up to 4 RAM modules to populate it with. So, for about $500, you can buy yourself a 4GB solid state storage device that could be used for a number of things including your operating system’s paging file, your boot device, your favorite game’s storage area, or a number of other things where the increased I/O performance would give you the greatest benefit.

Hell, with Windows installed on your i-RAM device, you could boot up in 9 seconds!

AnandTech article

Funny Vonage CSR Chat

July 25th, 2005

I recently signed up with Vonage and called them to find out if I could use a Telephone Adapter that I bought on eBay with my existing account. After going to research this issue twice, the 2nd time being asked how I’d get a new MAC address attached to my account, he came back and said:

“Your best bet would be to return your telephone adapter to the store…yup, that’s your best bet.” < -- is he for real?

The way the system works is that each telephone adapter (as well as every networking device in the world) has its own MAC address (like its unique signature). Vonage ties that MAC address to the phone number they have for you in the system. This is how it works when you take your telephone adapter with you on vacation, plug it in, and you can make and receive calls the same way you did when you were at home.

The Blog of Peter Filias

…a self-proclaimed Computer Ninja